Tired of Thinking? Google Says We Won’t Have To

11/13/2013 5:20AM

Imagine a world where a computer tells you what to do and when—without having to log into your PC. The WSJ’s Deborah Kan talks with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt on the technology of tomorrow.

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... a worldwide computer tells you what to do when when when ... logging into the computer ... well we're headed in that direction ... in a world where I computer to read our minds ... with out having to type the command ... and control the executive chairman Eric Schmidt on the technology of tomorrow and you you can imagine a very active environment where you wake up in the morning ... great when you look at the screen you say do I need to get out of that ... and the screen says no ... you don't ... because your boss is in India later we figured out the traffic is not to be too bad today ... you think you use that yes you will ... be you'll go back to St Can at thirty minutes of sleep ... so if if these things make your life better you will use the ... how many actually meets the era and wearable devices ... you can now do things that you couldn't do before the flexible the flexibility of the Opera disallows this ... so in our case we have found an inventor who just wanted to build this amazing piece of glass that you will be from Laos ... me combine that with the Micra miniature computer processor Annie and right ... right now all of a sudden we have a major operating system on this tiny device that we can talk to over why Fi ... he took all of those things to come together to make to last ... the same thing will be true for other devices whether its watches are other things that people wear ... is more a model of the unit of everything ... that these devices to be all around us ... when you walk in your home your watch or your class or what have you will announce that it is the right picture home ... in an interesting things will show up to make your monthly or home life better ... so we've we've seen the last legacy it alot ... well in the injured ecosystem there already partners that are building watches Samsung present to assist announcement ... and or other stuff is coming in that's about all its ... driverless cars and that seems to be the topic insured today and it seems like it's a real rates right to be the the first one out that he's doing it that that's the terrible tragedy of America is thirty thousand people are not on the highways every year ... so can you imagine if we could with automation and self driving cars or automatic driving cars ... we have that number in half or to a third ... it's a serious improvement quality of life for Americans ... and the numbers but we are works in ... Europe ... and China ... so it's very important from a safety perspective ... what can we expect to see ... we had ... them Chris's we haven't announced a precise date because it's ... as with many things it do we have to find where the limits are we have to actually use it we have to create success bets ... today you get into a driverless car and will race around the racetrack at full speed ... and terrify you on a private racetrack ... that you would want us to do that on public streets ... is there and this and to save the world will be like this in ten years ... and we're going there were headed that way so you need to fill in these gaps ... it is ever a vision for ten years ... it's completely determined by whether we can come up with Aunt Norris ... who want to have us help them fund and build such things ... but these depended upon the launch ... weekend just fine yes they have to come to us ... just imagine with them ... um in a traditional business that we have a pretty good idea ... the artificial intelligence the move from in strange and ... suggesting means to you ... moving from queries to helping you get life we roughly understand how to do that in your opinion what do you think ... the thing that makes disrupter of technology ... there's evidence that the next set of breakthroughs will probably be in biology synthetic biology ... aam and and DNA sequencing the cost of DNA sequencing is phone so dramatically ... it's possible to build the movement of Big Data databases ... about human health and do ... the kind of announce that on bets on a per person basis ... if people could only dream of five years ...